Author Archives: Zuzanna Walter

Life Protocols: Dr. David Sinclair’s Age-Reversing Daily Routine

Life Protocols: Dr. David Sinclair’s Age-Reversing Daily Routine

Life Protocols is a series exploring the evidence-based routines of leaders in longevity, functional health, and integrative medicine. Each edition examines the daily habits and lifestyle practices of innovators who bridge the gap between groundbreaking science and real-life applications. Featured experts embody the principles of health and lifespan optimization, translating breakthrough scientific frameworks into data-driven, lived experiences.

Inside Dr. Sinclair’s Age-Reversing Life Protocol

At the forefront of longevity research stands David Sinclair, A.O., PhD, an Australian Harvard genetics professor whose groundbreaking work proved aging could be reversed. Named among TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World and “Top 50 in Healthcare,Sinclair’s impact extends far beyond his 40+ awards, 60+ patents, and 200+ scientific papers with 85,000+ citations. 

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The Longevity Limit: Is This It? Has Human Life Expectancy Peaked?

The Longevity Limit: Is This It? Has Human Life Expectancy Peaked?

Quick Take: A landmark study published in Nature Aging challenges long-held assumptions about humanity’s potential for radical life extension, revealing that life expectancy gains have decelerated markedly across the world’s longest-lived populations. An analysis of three decades of data suggests that, without significant scientific breakthroughs, the maximum predicted life expectancy plateaus around 87 years – 84 for men and 90 for women.

Yet this apparent ceiling might reflect the constraints of traditional medicine rather than human potential itself. While modern medicine has extended the average lifespan, true breakthroughs must target the underlying biology of aging to go further.

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Zuzalu Zelar and Beyond Decentralized Longevity States 101824

Zuzalu, Zelar, and Beyond: Decentralized Longevity States Wage War on Aging, Disease, and Scientific Norms

Deep in the heart of Berlin, a group of visionary scientists, daring entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking investors are coming together for a collaboration of unprecedented potential. Their goal is not to launch a new startup or unveil the latest tech gadget. It’s far more audacious: to make death optional.

Welcome to Zelar City, a six-week pop-up community that’s part scientific conference, part futurist social experiment. From October 5th to November 17th, 2024, this temporary autonomous zone will host some of the world’s leading minds in longevity research, all united by a shared mission to wage war on aging, disease, and the concept of mortality itself.

But Zelar City is just the latest manifestation of a revolution that’s been gaining momentum for years. 

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